Post your unpopular BWFC opinions?(past and present)

Norpig wrote:oh and ALF was the best striker we've had since Supa John and Andy Walker 

Norpig wrote:You know my love for ALF is still strong Boncey 

xmiles wrote:Sordell might have kept us up if Coyle had actually used him.

Mind you Coyle also signed Ngog - the biggest waste of money since we signed Len Cantello.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:I felt and still feel Owen Coyle was enormously unlucky in the relegation season. Even before it started we had a crippling injury list and no money to replace the likes of Lee and Holden so we wound up playing with a patched up squad. Add in that we played 5 of the previous season's top 6 in our opening 7 games and it was little wonder we got to the 19 game mark with just 9 points.

Post Christmas with Lee and several others back we improved, taking 27 points from the second half of the season. Had we been able to match that in the 1st half we'd have finished on 54 points and in eighth position. That was enough for me to feel Owen was heading in the right direction and we should stick by him but it became clear in the first five games of the next season he didn't have support from many of the fans and perhaps had lost the dressing room too.

But I stand by my belief that a lot of what happened was beyond Owen's control because so much money had been thrown away by Megson and the debt was so high that he couldn't possibly build a Premiership quality squad with the depth needed to compensate for things like injuries and suspensions. We had a good starting 11 but if we lost any of them we were in trouble and at one point Owen was without no less than 6 of them for weeks and of course Lee and Holden in particular were out of action for months.

We shall now wait for sluffy to implode

luckyPeterpiper wrote:
I agree on Sordell but to be fair the lad was and still is suffering from depression. Trust me when I say that really is a hard thing to deal with at the best of times and that season was definitely not the best of times for anyone at BWFC.

As to Ngog I rated him when he was signed and was disappointed by how it turned out but I don't blame Owen for signing him. Given his reputation and previous performances I would have signed Ngog then myself.

luckyPeterpiper wrote:I was very puzzled by his lack of performance with us and I think if Owen should be blamed for anything it's for that failure to bring out the best in Ngog. As to Mears well 1.5 million was hardly a massive fee and he'd seemed pretty solid at Burnley.

I've already mentioned Sordell but I'll just add that I feel the club could and should have supported Marvin better than they did. They effectively made him appear to be some spoilt brat instead of shielding him from the press and fan reaction to his comments about missing London. What made that worse in my eyes was the fact we'd seen the same thing happen the previous winter with the likes of Trott and Trescothick who both wound up having to stop playing for England but the ECB and their respective counties did a fine job of supporting, shielding and helping them.

Norpig wrote:I always preferred the white hot days and that era over any of the Prem years.

xmiles wrote:Sordell might have kept us up if Coyle had actually used him.

Mind you Coyle also signed Ngog - the biggest waste of money since we signed Len Cantello.